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The Luangwa Valley in eastern Zambia, isolated by Rift Valley escarpments, forms one of Africa's greatest wildlife sanctuaries with exceptionally high concentrations of game.
Miombo woodland, dominated by Brachystegia and Julbernardia trees, spans roughly 2.7 million sq km across central-southern Africa, one of the world's largest tropical woodland biomes.
North Luangwa National Park in Zambia (est. 1972) is a remote, foot-access-only reserve noted for large buffalo herds and an ongoing black rhinoceros reintroduction program.
Tanzania's Ruaha-Rungwa savanna combines Ruaha National Park with surrounding game reserves to form one of Africa's largest contiguous wildlife areas exceeding 45,000 km².
Upemba Savanna in the Katanga region of southern DRC surrounds Upemba National Park, established in 1939 and the source of the Lualaba River, containing significant endemic freshwater fish diversity.
Katanga Savanna covers the copper-rich plateau of southern DRC's Katanga Province, characterized by miombo and Zambezian woodland and associated with high plant endemism driven by metalliferous soils.
Uganda's Ugalla savanna, part of the Ugalla River Game Reserve gazetted in 1965, is a miombo woodland-savanna in western Tanzania along the Ugalla River drainage.
